Thanks for that honest reply Harry. I think gadgeting is a serious enough reason to splurge, I've done it enough in the past!

@neko
You point to something else here but in the same vein. The original price set for the Kindle device of $50 was an attempt to frame customers in a captive market but the latest revisions in the order of $400-$500 might signify a larger array of choices for customers. Maybe what you are suggesting lies somewhere in there.